News Release
December 15, 2006
The Colorado Alliance has just released three new enhancements
to Gold Rush. The first enhancement provides a more precise list of
results when searching. The second enhancement is an improvement to the
new upload a title/title list feature, and the third allows sites to add their
own database descriptors.
Display Resources with Unverified Dates
Gold Rush Linker has always had the ability to mask article
level links when they are outside of the date range of the incoming
citation. However, title links still appear to the user. A new
setting, “Display Resources with Unverified Dates”, allows sites to
hide full text and indexing resources that fall outside of the date range of an
incoming citation.
This new functionality makes it easier for patrons to link
to a particular article or journal without having to scan through a long list
of results that don’t meet the date criteria of the article they are
seeking. This new setting is under Settings-Manage Gold Rush Linker in the Gold
Rush Staff module. Under the General Settings tab the fourth drop down
box is “Display Resources with Unverified Dates”. The default
setting is “yes.” If you would like to test out the new
feature, change the box to “No-Display Resources with Unverified
Dates”, and click the “Update” button. The
change will appear immediately in a Gold Rush results screen.
Enhancement to Add Your Own Journal or
Title List
At the end of November, the Colorado Alliance released a custom
loader which allows sites to upload new or existing title lists and individual
journals to Gold Rush. We have added a new drop down box, “Journal
Format” to this local loader that allows sites to determine in which
section of the results screen—full text, citation or local holdings--they
would like the resource to display. If they leave this field blank, Gold
Rush will determine where to display a resource by what is in the structured
date fields. If there is text in the citation or full text field, the
resource will respectively be placed in one or both of these fields. If the
title list or journal does not have a date, and a setting is entered in the
Journal Format drop down box, it will force an item to fall within the field
selected from Journal Format.
Adding Database Descriptors and Journal Subjects
The database descriptors that we have created or harvested don’t
always fit Gold Rush subscribers’ holdings. Sites can now create
their own database descriptors and journal subjects and delete those that don’t
fit within their holdings. Descriptors and journal subjects can be added
through the Cataloging module of Gold Rush. We have copied to all sites the
central list of descriptors so sites are free to add, modify or delete any of
their descriptors as needed.
This new suite of enhancements gives sites more control over
the cataloging of their resources. We hope it will also help patrons to
quickly find what they need in Gold Rush without having to scroll through
screens of results that may or may not be relevant. If you have questions
about the enhancements or other aspects of Gold Rush, contact George Machovec ([log in to unmask])
or Rose Nelson ([log in to unmask]) at
303-759-3399
Rose
Rose Nelson
Systems Librarian
303-759-3399 X103 (ph)
303-759-3363 (fax)